Religion: Little Sisters

A bustling yet other-worldly order are the Roman Catholic Little Sisters
of the Poor. Familiar sights in many a U. S. city are the sisters, with
their black habits, white starched caps tied under the chin. For sweet
charity, to care for the aged poor who are their charges, the Little
Sisters patiently make a nuisance of themselves by begging their way
through shops, offices, the streets. They have been at it for 100
years, since their founder, Jeanne Jugan, joined with three friends to
beg bread for some aged pensioners in the Breton village of St....